10 Greasemonkey Scripts to Enhance your Reddit Experience

Reddit is one of the biggest social link-site and since recent times, it has become one of my favorite site to spend my past time. Browsing through different categories related to Gadgets, Web Apps is fun but sometimes I feel it needs a little makeover.

In this post, I am listing 10 greasemonkey scripts which add more functionalities to Reddit, ranging from small to big, yet all useful.

Reddit Enhancement Suite (RES) is an All-in-One Collection of important scripts to enhance your browsing experience – each of which is configurable. You can enable/disable any of the modules, and most of them have their own options that can also be personalized.

Its include features such as:

A Configuration Console

Inline Image Viewer – Adds a “view images” button to load all images right on the page

I would recommend you to install this script, so you won’t have to install many of the other scripts listed below because they are already included in this Suite. If you don’t want them all, you can download only those you like:

2. Show Imgur Images Button

This script adds a “view images” button to show all the imgur links have their images displayed in both comments page and topics page.

3. Filter Plus

Filter Plus adds an option to Hide or highlight links by user, title, url or subreddit. Preferences for this script can be found on the regular reddit preferences page. Highlight colors may be entered as HTML colors (#123456) or with simple names (white, blue etc).

5. Style Reddit Comments?

6. Backbars

Backbars turns the headlines and comments into ambient bar-charts. The length of bars depend upon votes, number of comments, and on a comment’s votes. The idea behind this script is to provide subtle non-verbal clues about the popularity of a topic. So you can now, without even having to read the no. of votes, see how popular a topic is.

It doesn’t work only for Reddit, but it also works for other social link-sites like Digg, Hackernews, Delicious etc.

9. Static Header

It Makes the Reddit Header static, allowing it to be visible at all times. Also moves ‘My Reddits’ to a header tab and prevents tabs from being obscured by the username/preferences/logout area when the window size is small. Adds ‘rising’ tab next to the ‘new’ tab. Moreover, it also Adds user tab menu containing user page tab links: overview, comments, submitted, liked, disliked, hidden.